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    Now you're better get that dogs nails cut before it throws a toe You know whippets so you know they throw toes like greyhounds easily Sent from Singapore
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    This cross is only bred for its tight feet and some hybrid vigour. It'll lamp and course ok like any other sight hound, don't expect much guts though Sent from Singapore
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    Last time I saw a dog like that was at Lambourne around 1978. Great dogs for large prey like deer but that's not allowed now is it! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Pro
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    Did the breeding, big chested so will run all day, short base so will turn on a sixpence, big lugs so will hear a ferret working, small quarters so won't have the true speed of a grey or whippet, narrow head so will be thick (even with collie somewhere in the DNA). Looks a bit unbalanced from the photo but still would make a lamping hound! Sent from Singapore
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    I had this cross in the 70's and she was a good rabbit dog especially working with ferrets, downside was she used to get her feet torn up on the southern flint fields so I couldn't use her on hare. You need a tight footed dog for those fields that's why they breed Saluki into their stock, they have good tight feet and can run the flints fields without much of a problem. Oh, she was blooming ugly as well and as I'm no oil painting we made a great couple.....
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    One trick my dad used was an old door bell in the kennel. When the dogs fired up yapping he would sneak outside the kennel with a hose pipe. As soon as someone in the house rung the bell he would charge in like a madman soaking every dog in sight. After a few soaks all he had to do was sound the bell and every dog would run and hide. Trouble was when someone rang the actual doorbell the dogs in the house tried to get under the sofa. BTW we had an old grumpy Jack that once soaked would not come out of the kennel and if you tried to remove him he would show you his demonic side.
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    Thanks, these are used for White Eyes or Pekin Robins but I plan to use it for a Goldie Mule.
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    You're right these are expensive and I may lug just one back to the UK if I can't buy one there. By the way anyone remember the pub called Knave of Spades at Bethnal Green, I used to go there after visiting Brick Lane market to buy a few beers and a bird or two. The market and birds being sold will be long gone now as that was around 1979, great times meeting fellow mule breeders....
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    My love of song mules goes back to the early 70's and while I'm in Asia I will be buying a few of these cages to take home with me. Before I end up carrying these halfway around the world does anyone know if these cages are for sale in the UK?
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    Breed more as that's a cracking terrier, I'm at an age when I've only got time for one more dog and id choose that in a heartbeat
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    I had a bitch similar to this from Brightmore about 1976, she was a great worker and companion. The called her Wet Paint in the pub as if you disturbed her she'd draw blood.
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    Can't believe I just read that
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    Yes, and a Beswick collection minus a small fox that I have!
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    Especially down your neck of the woods, can't say too much other than 'oh deer' sorry spelt wrong should obviously be 'dear'
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    I was a friend of Dougie Cooper, and his pest control company was calledCTF Pest Control, in Sutton in Surrey.He had a field sport shop above the premises called CTF FIELD SPORTS SUPPLYS selling just about anything to do with fieldsports. There was loads of black and white photographs, some of Mick Douglas the fenman, i noticed he was not wearing shoes,, and loads of top quality pictures of lamping, ratting, allsorts, his shop was a hunters paradise and doug new Quite a few charachters.I worked a couple of the game fairs with Dougie back in the early 80s, and Dougie use to speak of the
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    Mick used to bathe in the beck running outside his old wind millers croft and in any weather and knew those fens like the back of his hand. When I knew him (late 1970's) he had an old travelers pony which he rode into town now and again.
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    I was a friend of Dougie Cooper, and his pest control company was calledCTF Pest Control, in Sutton in Surrey.He had a field sport shop above the premises called CTF FIELD SPORTS SUPPLYS selling just about anything to do with fieldsports. There was loads of black and white photographs, some of Mick Douglas the fenman, i noticed he was not wearing shoes,, and loads of top quality pictures of lamping, ratting, allsorts, his shop was a hunters paradise and doug new Quite a few charachters.I worked a couple of the game fairs with Dougie back in the early 80s, and Dougie use to speak of the
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    Hi all, I knew Doug Cooper (he was at my wedding in 1986) very well and had many a mad moments on the broads with 'barefoot' Mick Douglas. Doug had a 3/4 bed, whip and won many shows with him even at Lambourne which is now long gone. Doug died of aggressive cancer due to the chemical he used on wasp nests. I once asked Mick how many goats he had and he took a summons from the table and said 63, both guys were legends and the fun we had was crazy. Mark Ripley was alive then and if anyone remembers him and mad Jim you can imagine what we used to get up to, Mark was shot by his wife in a pub
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    Thank you that was a quick welcome, I'm in Singapore at the moment and looking forward to getting back to the UK's green fields and woods but most of all I want to hear the morning chorus.
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    Hi, I used to hunt with lurchers and terriers before Brian Plummer started ratting and Bill Brighmore breed the best black and tan Patterdale Terriers. I had one of the best bobbery packs and ferrets known to man, I'm also very shy. Anyway after working around the world since giving away my last dog (Saluki x Greyhound) in the early 80's I have been travelling the world and due to return to the UK late this Summer. Upon my return I'll be looking for a chocolate Nuttall Patterdale Dog about 8 weeks old. Until then I plan to be an active member of this forum so thanks for having me.
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